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Poplar 1916

Annual report for the year 1916 on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, comprising the registration sub-districts of Poplar, Bromley and Bow

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Table: TABLE XII.METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR.Sub-District of Bow.Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the Year 1916.

TABLE XII.

METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR.

Sub-District of Bow.

Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the Year 1916.

Causes of Death (see page 41).Nett Deaths in Sub-District at subjoined Ages.Nett Deaths in Public Institutions and certain localities within and outside Sub-Districts(at all ages) belonging thereto.Nett Total Deaths in Public Institutions, &c.
All Ages.Under 1.1 and under 2.2 and under 5.5 and under 15.15 and under 25.25 and under 45.45 and under 65.65 and upwards.Poplar Union Workhouse.Sick Asylum.Bow Institution.Bromley House Institution.Poplar Hospital.See Footnotes.Outlying Institutions
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All causesCertified...................................................
Uncertified...................................................
1 Enteric Fever3............21.........3...............3
2 Small Pox...................................................
3 Measles81421...............3............14
4 Scarlet Fever2......11..............................22
5 Whooping Cough16673..................1............45
9...441...............11.........68
7 Influenza2..................11........................
8 Erysipelas1.....................1........................
9 Phthisis (Pulmonary Tuberculosis)591...211327132122............1134
10 Tuberculous Meningitis61122....................................
11 Other Tuberculous Diseases31............11........................22
12 Cancer, malignant disease37......1......2161..................71
13 Rheumatic Fever3............1..............................3
14 Meningitis4...31.................................328
15 Organic Heart Disease50.........1271723124............329
16 Bronchitis6881...1...52033423............229
17 Pneumonia (all forms)691114112...5818...1511......122
18 Other diseases of respiratory organs1111......1143...1............18
19 Diarrhæa and Enteritis23176....................................84
20 Appendicitis and Typhlitis4............22........................32
21 Cirrhosis of Liver ...3..................2......1..................
21a Alcoholism1..................17...2...............8
22 Nephritis and Bright's Disease15...............24.....................52
23 Puerperal Fever ..................2...............2.........3............13
24 Other accidents and diseases of Pregnancy & Parturition4...............2.........1..................
25 Congenital Debility and Malformation, including Premature Birth ...............403712..................16............420
26 Violent Deaths, excluding Suicide .........19123...2326...4.........2512
27 Suicide .....................1...............1..............................
£.8 Other Defined Diseases ...............1441244311425812494.........3186
29 Diseases ill-dsfined or unknown............1013.........132...6............17
Total Deaths617985136152677117197819281i2111323
Sub-Entries (included in above figures)....................................................
14 Cerebro-spinal Meningitis2...2....................................71
28a Poliomyelitis211....................................22
17 Pneumonia283552...355...7............411

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* Highway, Bow, 1; Bow Junction, Great Eastern Railway, 1.